nms-the-future

[spark sonnet]

It's the illusion of movement

I thought the planets rotated around the sun

[safe sparrow]

No worries

[toxic slate]

I'm well aware, I've been playing since launch and have seen all their tech talks. But they have overcome a lot of obstacles already so I'm always wanting them to push ahead on this front. It's something I think would help give NMS a longer lifespan even without explicit content updates

[radiant sage]

Yesss, this way you can actually have communities

[cinder void]

It would be cool if you could create industry in a system, like your goods would be available for sale in the trading kiosk, NPCs/ "the system" would be a customer and buy your goods

You could set up shipping lines or something...the freighters in the system could "go on runs" to deliver things...stuff like that

[lucid ocean]

yeah, good point
Haven't played any of them yet, just watched a few YT clips.
Part of that DLC could give the economy a bit more depth

[flint gate]

Economies should experiencefluxuations, like, " news flash: bumdump star system is dangerously low on cobalt, sell cobalt at 35% demand for huge bonus"

[fallen badger]

the recommendations of the entire active dynamic economic system are very attractive

We can sort through our previous suggestions for more NPC interactions and political power changes, which, if implemented at the same time, will make the whole game more alive

1—The space station and the dominant galaxy mastered between the races and forces of the universe will change. It will have a rotation mechanism, and players can through mission, economic activity, construction influence it.
2—NPCs will interact directly with the player's base and buy things from the player's base.
3—We'll see caravans or raiders, perhaps NPCs, on the planet's ground, driving the same vehicles as the player but with a different shape, and we can buy or customize these vehicles.
4—Excessive production of a single product can lead to economic crises, and we will find that certain products suddenly depreciate to worthless, and certain goods become very expensive.
5—All of this will reflect on [1], and we will see different races' preferences for the economy, such as pirates loving illegal goods, and our economic activity with illegal goods will cause pirates to take over a system

[hollow aurora]

i know you guys might've heard it already but

honestly Gas Giants and sky platforms would be cool as hell

idk where but i saw a reddit post saying that the devs didnt wanted to add them so, i kinda wanted to know if this is true

[rapid charm]

i really wanna add onto this because this sounds fucking amazing

Based on the conflict level the amount of npc's from neighboring systems can just come around, over time slowly shifting the dominant race in that system and potentially changing the economy

Example: Tranquil + Manufacturing Economy Gek system over time shifts over to an Unstable Korvax system with a Trading Economy

also, the economy thing should be a bit more significant, i notice barely any differences in prices and items between systems when it comes to buying and selling with exception to outlaw and regulated

[lament mauve]

Gas platforms to Siphon gasses would be sick

[hollow aurora]

IKR?

[hollow aurora]

This sounds like an awesome idea, however i see it unlikely to have the economies and dominant lifeforms changing constantly since all of those factors are procedural, unless these changes are also procedural and run with some sort of rng to determine when and which system while switch to which economy, i think economies will stay as they are.
But i deffo would love to see it happening

[lament mauve]

Would an extra layer to gathering resources. Even if it’s in low quantities and extremely inefficient. Could be even rewarding if you managed to get rarer gasses to sell or use for better upgrades

[fallen badger]

This sounds like a change in the underlying logic, but on the surface, all this proposal requires is what already in the game, it doesn't require adding much new content (just some UI or some vehicle skin) . If the official is willing start working on this, I think it's totally achievable.

this would be great advice in anyway, and I'm thinking of writing a more detailed section on this advice to submit to Hello Games

[pastel minnow]

Weird thing to focus on, but I don't like how we can't call npcs in ships or npcs cant initiate a conversation with us on foot.
Also, whenever we sell something to an npc, they always buy it.. Why cant they decline or run out of money?
Why are their ships always for sale? How come some npcs dont refuse to sell their ship or negotiate a price for it?

[carmine otter]

yeah I sold 400m of stasis devices to a guy with a c class shuttle once lol

[pastel minnow]

Lol as detailed the system economies are, the npcs are a void I guess

[fallen badger]

That's the question, maybe these NPCs should have a fixed amount of cash, and when cash is low, they will negotiate or trade items, and each NPC should also have their own particular favorite items.

As for ship exchange and purchase, unless there is a facility such as a dock or a ship trading market in the game, ship exchange is currently the only way we can buy ships with money, and it doesn't seem suitable to change now.

Of course I would love to see that there are actually different ship builders in the shipyard who sell their ships uniformly through their agents.

I don't think nms will be updating the shipyard anytime soon though...unless it comes with the custom ship feature.

[quiet shadow]

I would really love to see more clothing choices, even as expeditions, particularly backpacks or cloaks.

[fallen badger]

I'm sure more patterns and colors of decorations will be easy and coming soon after the Outlaws update the capes

[quiet shadow]

Very nice. I hope so, I like the capes a lot.

[fallen badger]

if anyone knows the Elite Dangerous, They will know that the economic system and faction system of the NMS can be modified better. and NMS is already better than ED in my opinion because that game has become a goddamn jerk game by teasing players and selling more in-game purchases

regardless, it's definitely a good direction to focus on enhancing NPC interactivity in the NMS, especially as it improves all experiences on the ground and in space, as well as in economics and combat

[ionic coral]

Kind of sick and tired of taking direct shield and health damage while inside the exocraft. The minotaur is a rather large target and cannot evade fire like a player avatar. Arguably the players shields and health should remain undamaged while piloting an exocraft with the exocraft having its own shield and health values. When the exocraft takes enough damage the player should be ejected from the vehicle untill repaired and only than should they be vulnerable to incoming direct damage. This should only apply to combat and not damage from environmental effects.

[fallen badger]

yes, the vehicle system should be modified like a really drive a car, not a skin with debuffs and car jet engine

[ionic coral]

I just want enemies to have to destroy the vehicle before they can kill me like every other game

[spark sonnet]

all for this one.

[light wolf]

this fr

[spark sonnet]

yeah, now that I think of it, it does mildly annoy me. My exocraft doesn't actually take damage. I do. Lmao

[ionic coral]

My exocraft is actually just a hologram

[rotund stratus]

The next update will surely be 4.0

I can't wait to see what it is

[cinder void]

And thus No EVE's Sky was born

[final harness]

Anyone think there will be ship rewards in future expeditions

[fallen hawk]

Ships have already been rewarded for expeditions

[final harness]

Yea I know. But i didn’t get them. I want another ship expedition so I can get one 🥱

Kinda cringe if the only expedition ship released is golden vector

[toxic slate]

I think the best reward ships have come from the Twitch rewards, not the expeditions themselves

[cinder void]

JFC... Twitch rewards? Good lord.. I didn't even know those existed

I am officially an old man yelling at clouds

[toxic slate]

it's good marketing for them, helps pull new players in during the expeditions and then they tend to stick around

[final harness]

Are any of the twitch rewards still available

@toxic slate

[toxic slate]

no, you have to watch during the days they're active (usually for like a week at the start of a new expedition). but once you have them you can use them on any game save

[pastel minnow]

I kinda expect 3.9 to drop next month first

[carmine otter]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2597262064
Here's how you can still get them

[final harness]

Thanks

We really dropping stuff like this in the official server lmao

[carmine otter]

yeah it's fully legal

[final harness]

Yea ofc considering save editor is legal

I just think it’s funny that this is one of the few multiplayer games I play that is so chill about it

[safe sparrow]

No PvP

So it’s not a huge deal

I think only pirating is slightly frowned on

This community is a big supporter “let others play however they want if it doesn’t impact you”

[toxic slate]

legal sure, just kind of not supporting the NMS streamers by watching, which directly helps keep the game alive (through new players)

anyway, I'm ready for another variety and terrain generation update. I want every galaxy to have its own terrain algorithms to give us some reason to explore them

[safe sparrow]

Not everyone had the chance to watch

[deft prawn]

I work a full time job and I'll be ||God||-damned if I'm gonna waste a second watching twitch for cosmetic rewards

[safe sparrow]

I mean, you don't need to watch it

Well

It forces you to claim the reward before you can make any more progress, so you can't fully AFK it

But yeah

[gloomy hazel]

You didn't have to claim inbetween rewards for the twitch drops

[safe sparrow]

I do

[gloomy hazel]

I fully afk'd mine and got all the rewards and claimed them after

[safe sparrow]

I couldn't do that with Siege drops

Maybe it changed

[gloomy hazel]

How long ago was that?

[safe sparrow]

Six months ago

[gloomy hazel]

Might have changed then

Or you might have just been claiming them in between but could have been fine to leave them

[safe sparrow]

Nah, I wasn't able to get every drop because I forgot to claim

[gloomy hazel]

That's weird

Must have changed then

[safe sparrow]

Annoyingly

[queen wyvern]

I afk-ed for 5 days straight and claimed all at the end of each day. I ain't watching no one play a game for 3 hours 😅

[prime wharf]

I do think the game needs a bit of a QOL pass tbh add more depth and intrest to settlments, make finding and selecting frigates less an ordeal

[spark sonnet]

simply not making it "hold to interact" would be a good start in terms of QoL 😛

[carmine otter]

About frigates, you should talk to the captain and see a list where you can choose any you want to buy

[pastel minnow]

I'm even cool with pirating older version of the game if you have a copy of the current game.

And yeah, I always found it kinda disrespectful to the fleet how a frigate is so eager to join your side the moment you get close enough lol

[safe sparrow]

If you own the game, do whatever you want in terms of pirating the game for your own use.

[pastel minnow]

Yeh

It's the perfect way to switch between versiions without any of the stress of editing files or worrying about backing stuff up 😄

[slate ridge]

I think it would be cool to sell your ships/freighters to friends

It would be cooler with an update that improves ship customizations

[pastel minnow]

Everyone wants ship customization.
Those who are against it have a rather bizare argument imo

I think ship parts could be collected through out the game and then you'd need a settlement to pimp out your ship with the available parts you got.
You know, adding gameplay, exploration and making settlements have a purpose.
Instead of just going to a space station and changing a ship on the fly, that would kinda suck

If ship customization is added, I'd like to work for it 😄

I think only color changes would be okay to change on the fly by buying it with nanines from the menu, like the freighter

[indigo halo]

add ship customization might kill the reason to do ship hunting

[pastel minnow]

Yeah thats the argument I cant possibly comprehend. I dont get it

[indigo halo]

if devs have some reason to not do that

anyway i have my own customized ship created by seed mining

there's already a community doing customization research

[pastel minnow]

I dont understand the appal of... Waiting around in a game for rng.
But if ship customization was added, how does that possibly prevent anyone from waiting around for a ship anyway?

[indigo halo]

the game has freighter color customization

[slate ridge]

Ship customization should not be easy to do like how you would customize your own character

[indigo halo]

might because changing freighter is way more expensive than getting ships

[slate ridge]

I feel like customizing colors should be the easier part of ship customization

[pastel minnow]

Yeag agreed. I described how I'd like it to play out

[slate ridge]

Changing parts should take time and investment

[pastel minnow]

Yep

[indigo halo]

and decals and material

[slate ridge]

And to make it better, only allow customizing with S class ships

[pastel minnow]

Oh good idea actually

[slate ridge]

Which will give you a better reason to invest in your ship

[indigo halo]

making ship color customizable will make ship hunting turning into looking for ship part combination

as color doesn't matter

[slate ridge]

They could also add more colors and make them unlockable through a milestone or a quest

[indigo halo]

then we got the problem is people will then ask multitool color customization...

[slate ridge]

I don’t think that is a problem tho

People asking for a feature shouldn’t be a problem

Thats the whole purpose of this channel

[hollow aurora]

this is just because im a little petty but
I want to ACTUALLY FLY with the jetpack

like

not just lil jumps

actual fly

[slate ridge]

You can

U just gotta install some upgrades

And do the melee + jetpack combo

Also, for character customization korvax should have better helmet customization

A tycoon system would also be cool like having a starship factory, owning a space station, running a pirate business or a bounty business.

Just some ideas

[fleet lark]

honestly i just had this idea recently, but if it isn't already a thing, some player made quests could be interesting to see. Stuff such as "Go to this place, and get this material for a reward" and just have it go off into however many little deviations the player making the quest would be interested in making. Like "Oh, that thing you needed to find in this area? I already found it, and sold it off to someone else." etc

[spark sonnet]

You can, with enough fuel :p

[fleet lark]

A way to counteract people from spamming thousands of quests through this system would be 1 quest per person, and said person has to be present to give the quest. Like an npc out of a game. This would allow people to be more immersive with some of their requests, while also offering up a way to roleplay more with the game, with a pop-up, marker, etc. And instead of the player needing to be present for the end of quest bit, you could simply log in at a terminal in the player hub, perhaps, built specifically for said quests. You place the item in the computer, the game checks the quest, and you get rewarded for it.
As a bonus, the reward for obtaining said materials should be just a little higher compared to how much a player would make simply selling said materials off. Geknip would sell for 30-40k units, instead of the usual 20k that selling would give. Or maybe an item from the player posing the quest. Player puts in a weapon they're gonna give away for the Geknip, the game then gives said item to the player when the quest is completed.

[hollow aurora]

I know the fuel thingie but you know

i wanna freaking jump off my freighter and fly at bird height

[quiet shadow]

It is probably said in here every single day, more character customizations. Idc if it's more expeditions or DLC at this point, I'm tired of the space thong. Femme customizations would be nice as well, don't need it overly hot/sexualized-- mean more just sleek, curves, small shoulders, hips. Would be cool to see a bubble helmet that is like the quintessential old school fishbowl helm. AND MORE JETPACKS!

[spark sonnet]

More quick silver items please

[spark sonnet]

Probably would be a odd idea since we have space ships and what not. But moee movement abilities is always good

[slate ridge]

I think there needs to be improvements to the standing system in which there should be a karma system based on standing to make the game feel more like an rpg. Like if you often pillage vykeen systems and get an absurdly low standing, you should feel the consequences when travelling to vykeen systems. Some examples of consequences would be:

-Bounty placed on you (Frequent NPC attacks while in space or in settlement. If a player finds you they can see the bounty in which they have to kill you to claim it which will in turn reward them with a great amount Nanites or Quicksilver and increased standing. The more you commit crimes, the higher your bounty will be. You can always pay off your bounty with units in a space station) This would be better with a pvp update.

-Limited trading in systems (depending on the standing, trading limitations can go from higher prices/excluded items to straight up being denied from trading with NPCs and galactic terminal for those systems)

-Lowest standing will lead to being denied entry to space stations (which will not let you pay off your bounty), refrain from increasing standing from all sources, and presence in low standing systems being visible to nearby players. If desired to increase standing at this stage, a mission will prompt in which you have to meet a leader of said race in a planet and gain trust back by completing a very difficult challenge and making an oath.

Having good standing with race can also lead to many benefits. Some benefits could be:

-Discounts on bartering and more items to browse.

-Being able to buy space stations and receive income benefits and even bigger discounts on goods.

-Good chances of NPCs aiding you during a planetary raid or fighting sentinels.

-Better missions with bigger rewards

-Highest standing will unlock an exclusive character customization gradient color and a decal with each race having its own unique color/decal.

[spark sonnet]

Agreed

I personally love the idea of having a bounty placed on your head by the game because of your negative reputation. The bigger the negative rep you have, the higher the bounty for your head

[gloomy hazel]

Could be an addition to the outlaws update - Outlaw systems start sending bounty hunters after you for the money

Starting at like 1-2 stray starships for a little negative rep, all the way up to combat frigates for a lot of negative rep

[brazen nova]

Yes. Experience the consequences for your actions.

[stark ingot]

I'd be all for blowing up Vy'keen freighters

[brazen nova]

And the higher your standing with NPC's the better the upgrades they will give you after interactions with them. From C-class upgrades with a neutral standing, to B-class with a good standing to A and S class upgrades with a high standing.
Also, getting new interaction possibilities unlocked with a higher standing.

[queen wyvern]

Think we'll ever get an in-game trading system? Like "looking for xxxx copper, will reward with xxxx indium"

[gloomy hazel]

not sure if this is a thing, but like with your bases that you build there could be like a base builder mode where you go to a planet build a base, then have to defend it from creatures, ships whatever

[spark sonnet]

"Consequences" are something that's lacking in the game standing system so far. The little amount of consequences that exist can be paid off as if nothing ever happened. Though.. tbf, that's pretty realistic.

[brazen nova]

We need consecuences.

No Man's Sky: Wrath of Karma update.

[spark sonnet]

Definitely. Our trading system in the game (if you can call it that) is pretty weird.

[golden cobalt]

fleet expedition debriefing/encounter text should be written in the crew's language; learn more words of that crew's language to read them

[drowsy herald]

am i the only one who would think it be cool if you can make your freighter do an orbitaal bombaardment

[old plaza]

I know this is probably a really popular thing that people say but full ship customization would be so cool

[old plaza]

that’s a really good idea

[drowsy herald]

ik it be cool for the freighter to have more uses

[drowsy herald]

it be cool but it would ruin ship hunting

[static ridge]

One thing thats been suggested is that you have to have a ready supply of parts to be able to do customisation, and those parts would be RNG on scrapping ships that contain the parts you need. Those parts are consumed by cutomisation

So to be able to customise, you need to keep finding and scrapping ships

[drowsy herald]

that would make it more balance or maybe another suggestion that you can make your own ship with those parts like have the x wings from an explorer but the cockpit from a fighter

but that they dont have the best stats for balancing

[static ridge]

No, I think we need to keep the ship types and their parts separate

[drowsy herald]

far enough it cause some problems too so yea i only hope thaat the x wings from explorer could also be vailible for a fighter

i kinda wanna hqave an x wing

[static ridge]

I think the reason that its set up like it is, is because sean is attempting to skirt around disney and prevent them from being able to say he copied something from SW

Like, some companies have given sean permission to use their designs and artwork and others havent

[gloomy hazel]

you know what would be nice? if we had this as a base decoration. it doesn't even need to contain any messages. Just the object to spruce up a work station

as much as i don't mind using the industrial pallets as a faux book, i'd appreciate an actual document/reading item decoration to place here or there

[prime wharf]

You know, the former captain needs to do something

[carmine otter]

Oh no, they have the very important job of standing somewhat close to the console while you warp the ship

[spark sonnet]

Would be cool, but there has to be a reason why they'd do that?

[prime wharf]

I mean lets be honest the toughest fight in this game is a slw day in warframe, we need Blaze Javelin fixes not orbital weapons

[opaque mauve]

honestly i'd love to see the ability to put doors in your freighter.

[gloomy hazel]

it's funny how derelict freighters have all these doors, but you can't build a single one on your own.

maybe doors are the reason they become derelict!?

[balmy cove]

oh my god

hidden lore

it's everywhere

[prime wharf]

I mean in every derlict you find a log saying 'we locked the awfull thing behind a door" and another saying "the doors do nothing! all we did was stop ourselves knwong what the awfull thing was up too!"

[proven sapphire]

Is there a way you can collect your expedition rewards again? (I lost my golden vector)?

[main hound]

Make a new save, claim it, trade it to another player, have that player trade it with you.

[main hound]

Also go to #nms-questions

[proven sapphire]

searched but could not find it

let me start with a new game/save

[main hound]

Also how have you 'lost it'?

[proven sapphire]

I was ship buying in multi player mode

and did not make a manual save

[neon kernel]

No Man's Sky: Freighters update
No Man's Sky: Freighters adds several new types of freighters and large ships, as well as fully fledged interiors.
Explore the vast inner workings of these colossal vessels, such as the Hyperdrive, the cargo bays, and even a hangar for frigates. To allow for movement inside these ships, a tram system has been added. Conduct spacewalks to get a true sense of scale, and perform repairs on damaged exterior systems

[icy onyx]

is that a leak?

[neon kernel]

came up with it myself

[icy onyx]

I wish the water was changed in a realistic way.

[safe sparrow]

I would really love an exocraft update

Making them more universally useful

Allowing for analysis visor use, maybe a more mobile exocraft

[cinder void]

Mobility is the big thing...aside from the nautilus and the minotaur is there even a point to the others?

[toxic slate]

Not when people just fly their ship from point to point, but it's doubly bad because HG put a lot of friction points on even using an exocraft in a place where you haven't built terminals for them

It would be cool to have Mad Max style exocraft battles with roving pirate gangs though

[pastel minnow]

Apparently there's new freighter base parts that were datamined

Like a door, window, balcony and lift

[cinder void]

You should basically be able to carry a small exocraft in your ship so it's with you wherever you land

that would probably fix the whole issue

[pastel minnow]

3.9 Star Racers

• Exocrafts are now procedural and are driven by lifeforms across the planet just like ships.

• Blueprints for exocraft have been replaced with exocraft driving licenses which are required to drive exocraft

• buy or exchange exocraft with other lifeforms

• trade outposts and archives have received a visual overhaul to allow exocraft to dock just like starships

• Races across planets can be found as well as participate in. Upgrade your exocraft to win races for unique rewards

• Upgrade your exocraft from your settlement base.

• Exocraft come with new weapons that shape the racing terrain around them. Set traps or evade hazards from other racers.

• Watch yourself in violent systems, some racers tend to play dirty

[toxic slate]

true, also they should get rid of the fuel costs for exocrafts or at least make them much cheaper than they are

i think the only practical use they have is using their radar to scan for specific POIs

[toxic slate]

they've tried to expand on the racing aspect in the past, but really I feel like it takes it into a different game genre that doesn't gel with NMS. I would rather they weave exocrafts into the existing gameplay systems more so they're useful tools

[pastel minnow]

I know they added the race thing with pathfinder, but I kinda wish it was utilized a bit better, you know?

Exocrafts right now don't have a purpose for exploring since the vast majority of players would sooner grt in their ships and fly to a place

[toxic slate]

mm well I believe they also added multiplayer support for them a few updates ago, never messed with it myself

[pastel minnow]

Also there's the whole thing where travelers are the only ones who have exocraft in the universe ans it's always the same model.
Kinda wish exocraft had variation to them and that NPCs drove them around too

[toxic slate]

I would love to see things like be able to hire a fleet NPCs to mine and drive haulers. Trading/mining don't really have any endgame content, and I'd like to see that those become more management rather than players mining every rock and trading every good themselves. So while those wouldn't directly be exocraft uses for players at least they'd be used

[pastel minnow]

Oh I remember some materials could only be mined with exocraft, but that got taken out

[toxic slate]

But as I mentioned I'd love to see moving pirate gangs driving exocraft. HG could make it where ship weapons don't damage exocrafts much so players have to fight them with their own exocrafts

[toxic slate]

yeah a bizarre decision honestly

[pastel minnow]

Man.. I'm really excited for the next update after Sentinel and Outlaws.. I hope it's another overhaul of some old mechanic again.
I just assume it'll be 3.9 next month, and I know for a fact better asteroid generation is coming 👀

[maiden orchid]

Killing another traveller should immediately get sentinel forces on you, unless they’re hated by the dominant life form of the system, in which case you can claim a bounty

[echo tapir]

Ever since they have overhauled the graphics in this game, I have had many crashes. I count 29 crashes total that my system has gotten so far in the past month and there are way more than that I have had from my entire time of playing the game.

I decided to do some base building and there were many bugs that I have encountered for base building. The issues/bugs that I was having were forever loading when reloading a save at base, extractors working only if power was off and don't work when power is connected, extractor extracting 0/h, short ranged teleporter are teleporting me to the wrong ones, electromagnetic generators failing to work, game crashes when attempting to remove a specific extractor, and being able to take out the materials infinitely from the extraction storage.

Not only did base building have bugs but there are many bugs that this game has that haven't been fixed and it is ruining other players experiences including me. My platform is a PS4 that is 7 years old so I am thinking the personal issues I am getting is from there. After all, my FPS is bad and only got worse from the base that I built when I'm near it. My other issue is that every planet I go to take a while to load before I can land. I have been in the #nms-questions channel for about roughly a month now which is when I had joined this discord server too and half of the questions that players have in their are how to fix bugs. Some of the bugs that other players encountered were not only inconvenient but unfixable and ruined their gameplay!

No other game I played was this bad with bugs and being able to load like this in general. these problems have persisted for years on my console.

In conclusion, I am done base building or possibly even playing the game until I get a new console. Hello Games should focus less on content and prioritize more on bug fixing.

[toxic slate]

^ that's probably better sent to HG directly on their zendesk, they won't read it here

fwiw I haven't had any crashes on my PS4

[echo tapir]

Any feedback would be appreciated for this. I sent some bug reports to HG but not many.

[echo tapir]

Okay thank you.

[toxic slate]

you might try rebuilding the console's database

[echo tapir]

I tried that and it didn't work. There were many things I have tried that I should have included up there and It did not fix anything unfortunately 😦.

[toxic slate]

sorry to hear that :/

[echo tapir]

I sent a report to HG of my base building experiences and my performance issues I have had now. Thanks again @toxic slate for letting me know to do that.

[drowsy herald]

Maybe that enemys got some kind of tanks or that there would be firtreses that needed quick dissasembly

[hazy rose]

I hope one day the pirate raids actually spawn like hostile alien races to attack you on foot

Star Wars shootout style

I’d love to have the opportunity to shoot a gek

[worn idol]

Redline in No Mans Sky

Procedural racing focused exocraft with a daily race that all players can join

Or even just starship races

Wager your vehicle

[fair halo]

I wouldnt mind buildable space stations along with more fauna per planet. oh and regarding that exocraft racing, this is just my fzero fanboy talking but can we make the nomad ALOT faster? running a full set of s rank engine mods and i still feel slow

[pastel minnow]

Oh yeah.. Exocraft dont have ranking, do they?
Damn, there's a lot of potential improvements for exocraft

[spark sonnet]

Yessir, imagine the possibilities

[pastel minnow]

I wrote about my ideas for a racing mechanic yesterday.
How HG could add a new loop to the game while vastly improving the exocraft and other small areas of the game

[pastel minnow]

This.
Forgot to mention "Improved dust particles" 🤣

[icy onyx]

Let me make a bonfire!

[pastel minnow]

People want fishing but they do not realize that water needs to be fixed first

[main hound]

Plus ||half the water is infected with modified nanites, so the fish in there might be hazardous to eat||

[pastel minnow]

Oh it is? I guess its some lore I missed

[soft marsh]

are there pubs in outlaw space stations?

[granite cosmos]

No, just upgrade shops and the quest board
Would be cool though
Maybe a good use for the blocked off upper rooms

[heady phoenix]

Is that because of the Korvax?

[main hound]

No

[heady phoenix]

Oh, then why?

[main hound]

||Because of the Abyss||

[heady phoenix]

K

[heady phoenix]

Wait, what is that?

[main hound]

Go to #nms-spoilers o learn more

[heady phoenix]

K

Thnx

[minor whale]

Hey I have a quick question to ask. Will there ever be pirate fleets in the game? Like not just a few fighters but like, fleets with frigates and freighters. It could make a way to loot freighters without having to ruin your reputation with another faction.

[main hound]

I don't think pirates are THAT organised, they mostly are a loose collective with simillar goals

[minor whale]

Well I imagine if they ever are implemented they would be extremely rare and not as large as normal fleets.

But it could add another difficulty level in the game for players who are tired of constantly destroying random space pirates in every battle, and we could possibly see some freighter vs freighter action since other factions don't attack eachother.

A cool idea would be the ability to free a system from pirate control if you destroy a pirate fleet. Though thats not something I would expect to become a feature

[slate ridge]

Pvp update would be nice

[slate ridge]

Organized crime

[minor whale]

I also like the idea of being able to conquer, or outright buy your own spacestations, it would basically be the final step into turning the game something like space mount and blade, though I don't expect something like that it all, just a cool thought.

[spark sonnet]

We technically already have those, but they behave more like less aggressive normal fleets. Wish they'd defend their cargo everytime I raided their cargo

[pastel minnow]

I feel like I'm the only one in the community who is under the impression that NMS's universe is extremely static and there's no hope for lasting effects being added to it.

Apart from building bases, everything is always reset. Plants, animals, terrain, defeated sentinels..

Yet people are fantasizing about changing a system's type or teraforming a planet or owning a space station.
I mean those would be neat, totally, I just think it's a bit unrealistic

[toxic slate]

I think this comes down to the processing limitations of the procedural generation engine on current hardware, it can't really keep up even with the current Roamer speeds

[fair halo]

oh. huh.

[toxic slate]

heck, it can't even keep up on the PS4 when I boost-run

[fair halo]

yeah my acer nitro 5 heats up like crazy when i run nms

[toxic slate]

eventually when they cut off the last-gen consoles, they may be able to expand what they can do

but with the console supply chain the way it is, who knows when that will happen

[static ridge]

Hrm, remember that systems not under pirate control ARE under sentinel control. The sentinels are NOT law and order. They are the Agents of the simulation, and a Bad Thing. Right now, there is no 3rd way type of system - its either under sentinel control or run by the pirates

The spread of outlaw systems is due to || the atlas dying and the sentinels being significantly weakened and slowly losing control of entire systems||

[opaque mauve]

has there been any talk of going deeper into planets such as going further into the crust or deeper into an ocean?

[timid belfry]

Storage silo rework:
Storage silos will no longer require more to built, but instead will increase in capacity as they are upgraded. Storage silos can be upgraded by adding 10 metal plating, and will basically be the exact same without the framerate suffering because of storage

[main pecan]

Predictions on Switch release date/announcement? I feel like we'll hear something the week after the Expedition wraps up.

[torn fractal]

July/August

[main pecan]

Yeah

Makes sense

I'm just hoping we get a confirmed date soon

[cosmic comet]

Will there ever be planets with multiple biomes in No Man's Sky's future?

[cinder void]

I have a feeling there will need to be some changes to the very core of the procedural engines they use to allow for that, might even require a complete redesign which would probably mean NMS2

if that ever happens

It would be cool if they could have a planet engine that set seeds for areas based on a set of variables and could let it generate pieces of a planet independently

I have no idea what sort of resource requirements that would have though, obv

[pastel minnow]

I always had a feeling thry rewrote a lot of the code for how building structures and parts worked with Frontiers.
That update didn't have too much content but it was also pretty buggy, and a lot of the bugs were related to freighters and outposts.
Like the meat of the uodate was under thr hood that allowed HG to do new stuff going forward

And looks like new freighter base parts have been confirmed to be overhauled, so that would possibly explain why they were glitchy for a while

[supple spruce]

hey does anyone know if theyll ever be adding gas giants? i'd kill to be able to make a floating gas giant sky base.

[ionic coral]

Dedicated tech tab for exocraft given the amount of stuff needed just for base functionality esp the headframe stuff for minotaur there needs to be a place to put these that does not take up general slots exocraft are the only things in the game that do not have a tech tab and this is a massive design defect. Arguably the way tech works in and of itsself is defective by design because tech items cannot be stored in a freighter container when not in use If they could be moved around between inventories this would be a non issue as loadouts could be changed as needed although if tech dismantled with a 100% resource recovery this would also be a nonissue. alsthough upgrades aren't blueprints so there is also that issue so moving tech items between inventory's is really the easiest fix since it is just a matter of changing the items properties to allow it to go into other slots

[ionic coral]

New base item Satellite power transmitter. This unit transmits power wirelessly across planetary distances allowing multiple bases to share a power grid provided they all exist on the same planet. When the Power transmitter is placed the player will enter a name for the transmitter. All transmitters sharing the same name will be on the same network and share their connected power grids. This is my idea for a reasonable solution to the problem of EM hotspots being spread out and usually more than 1000 units from any meaningful mineral deposit. Given it is impossible to run power lines between two bases a dedicated base part for linking multiple power grids seems like the best way to work around this. Additionally this concept can be expanded with a point to point matter beaming base component which will provide point to point linking of supply pipes allowing silos to be positioned in one central spaceport and receive minerals from miners located in remote locations. To keep things balanced this will be limited to bases that are on the same planet

[desert bone]

future update idea: player made mini golf courses available from a terminal built in your base. Similar to the race tracks, but with a physics based mini golf game.

[spark sonnet]

The duality of man.

Player one: complex qol changes that makes the game even better than before.

Player two: add mini golf (makes the game exponentially better)

[pastel minnow]

I just want ships to stop clipping in space stations and freighters, camera to stop clipping when ship is rotating or stop going under ground when it focuses on an item on a planet, "landing area not clear" to go away, the ability to scan planets 100% successfuly when pointing at them and not 5%

It's the little things that make me sad, cause they're present in the most common things you do in the game

Oh yeah, can't forget about that 5D water surface that exists between the barriers of space and time

[desert bone]

idea for ships with wings that clip into the space station: they explode. As does the space station.

problem solved

[rugged mist]

Idea for the frigates could we maybe have a way to activate ship to ship battles where we can control the guns one our feet I would love to see something like it

[pastel minnow]

It used to be fine until Beyond made the ships much bigger. The space stations and freighters didn't get changed to acomodate the new ships

What's really confusing is how NPC ships go into the ceiling of the space stations for some reason when thry enter.
I think that's mostly beed fixed though

[cinder void]

The ceiling thing has definitely not been fixed, I've seen it happen constantly, even when I was playing earlier today

[cinder void]

The explorers with wings should have the wings fold up and rotate in, like naval planes on aircraft carriers do when they're stowed

[cinder void]

I would love it you could harvest the gas from the atmosphere, even more if you could only do it with a hauler to give a reason to even bother with haulers

[static ridge]

Sean was asked about this either last year or the year before, and confirmed he had no plans to add them.

[supple spruce]

thats disappointing.

[south dew]

I'd love to see the Switch edition get a little nod to Metroid with Samus' gunship or her armor maybe? It would leave Sony with the only version without an exclusive little something though... 🤔

[dull field]

QoL Wishlist:
List reorganization.
Save file naming.

• Barring that, pulling the title applied to the save file and listing it on the saves list.
  Togglable comms sphere overlay.
  Togglable storm overlay.
  Togglable universal interaction hold.

[gloomy hazel]

ratchet and clank style figher starship

[pastel minnow]

Imagine renamig your save files only to find out it had a profanity filter

[cinder void]

You know what would be fucking great? If you could apologize to everyone so the sentinels would stop trying to kill you if you accidentally hit a friendly during the pirate battles

you know...since nobody is coordinating any action or flying in formation or anything or communicating in any way to prevent friendly fire incidents

[toxic slate]

the Sentinels definitely don't practice empathy lol

[cinder void]

I was waiting for this damn freighter, finally saw an S but it pitched up and went into space so I flew after it...followed it for 10 minutes, fought 2 pirate attacks, the 2nd attack I must have hit a friendly because suddenly everyone is coming at me and I lost the freighter when I went in to the station to get them off my back

[tepid hawk]

I've had pirates dock my freighter in the middle of me fighting them and I can't get to them until they decide to leave: and i've had pirates clip into freighters/docked inside those freighters

which makes avoiding friendly fire

difficult, to say the least.

[clear fern]

Can we have a poster that has a scribbly sentinel drawn on it with a red 🚫 drawn on it plz

"No sentinels allowed"

[muted tulip]

thissss https://metroid.fandom.com/wiki/Frigate_Orpheon

the fusion+ style gunship would be hype too tho

[toxic slate]

the Switch version scares me because it makes me think we're going to be stuck with old-gen hardware limitations for a long time

[burnt heath]

i'd love to see the find the crashed freighter mission fixed

[pastel minnow]

I'd love to see the water fixed

I bet the day if happen, patch notes will call it "visually improved"

[spark sonnet]

I'd love to smack thay vykeen in the face because he slapped me for picking the wrong diologue option (I offered to help him with his Multi Tool, he didn't like that).

[main hound]

I would also like to slap a gek, for the same reason of course

[hot flame]

Why? They didn't add reflections or fur for older consoles.

PC has all kinds of graphic options console doesn't - didn't stop them from adding DLSS or FSR

Switch won't hold us back

[opaque mauve]

bumping this. i think having the ability to dig deeper or swim further down to build deep bases would be sick ngl, though i'm not sure of how that would effect terrain gen

[muted tulip]

😬

[opal prawn]

tfw no ability to scrap your multi tool if you have more than one…

[muted tulip]

this is true tho, they could easily just put lower quality textures on switch (ship fauna etc) bcuz they are pretty high def already

switch is still more powerful than it is portrayed as, it can run SMT 5 and rocket league really well

[ionic coral]

Please rework settlement mechanics so that profitable settlements can build up a improvement fund so that they do not go into debt again every time a new project is funded. This is stupid that settlement projects cannot be funded from settlement profits without disrupting production

Or hell just allow us to fund projects directly I have millions in funds I can throw at settlement debt to wipe it out but am not allowed to due to an oversight in game mechanics

[spark sonnet]

All these wondeful ideas

I hope the devs can see some of them

[ionic coral]

I mean the game is still being worked on and was updated just this year the main issue is how they collect and parse the suggestions I would hope there is a bot that records the chat history here and parses it into a spreadsheet or something

[spark sonnet]

hopefully so

silence is good to temper expectations, but it does leave one to wonder where we're at right now in terms of progress

[violet vortex]

there is no such thing. if anyone here would like to make suggestions to HG, we always recommend the !hg link i'll post below. this chat is mostly for community discussion.

!hg

[misty iris]

You can submit bug reports, suggestions or feedback to Hello Games here: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[cinder void]

It would also be nice if during some of the dialogue choices it actually made sense what the result was. Like when you're a settlement overseer and you have to solve a dispute, half the times it is completely unclear who is claiming what, and there is no information that can actually inform you of what choice means what so you may as well flip a fucking coin

[bronze valve]

I’ve been seeing rumors of a freighter update.

[ivory adder]

"Wanted" flag to identify repeat player killers and incentivize community response. Bounty would be paid out to player responsible for downing the "wanted" player.

[bronze valve]

Well it’s hard to find other players out in space to begin with, even impossible maybe. Player killers would have to be pretty bloodthirsty or very lucky

[ivory adder]

You might be surprised

[cinder void]

It would be cool if shooting them down also warped them to the furthest system away from any other players and prevented them from using portals or warp gates haha

If you want to grief people you better be really fing good or suffer the consequences

[ionic coral]

depends on network settings and whether or not they have their game set to public or friends only

[ivory adder]

lol, hiigaran this is starting to seem personal bro

[ivory adder]

Right, but doesn't it also depend on whether I have a computer or have paid the internet bill recently

[ivory adder]

😆

[ionic coral]

All i am saying if you dont want to run into greifers set your multiplayer restrictions and go to invite only

[ivory adder]

@cinder void this part's for you I think

[ionic coral]

You can eaisly prevent people from messing with your bases

[ivory adder]

Right, yeah. Network tab does all of that, I know

[ionic coral]

Its also frontier justice if you get pirated just put together a Posse and kill them right back 🤠

[ivory adder]

I'm not actually worried about getting griefed

It'd just be a cool mechanic, that's all

[cinder void]

Fair enough, I still have virtual PTSD from Ultima Online so...

showing my age there though

[ivory adder]

Ooh boy, I know the sorts you've played with. Honestly surprised they're so absent from NMS

[cinder void]

They all play EVE

[ivory adder]

^

[ionic coral]

Proceeds to have nam style flashbacks at the mention of EVE

[cinder void]

All right this is really stupid but this is the number one thing I want right now. I want to be able to paint my ships. I'm sitting here spending hours waiting for a white Hauler to show up in S-Class and the two times I've seen it in s class it's flown up in the space

On the other hand, I have a perfectly acceptable hauler already in my fleet except for it's yellow and I really want one that's all white

[ivory adder]

You need an S-class white hauler bro?

[cinder void]

I'm looking for a very particular white hauler... Mack cab long neck, long tail with either vertical or horizontal stabilizers, extended wings with either saber engines, torpedoes and then fan wings

[ivory adder]

I getcha, let me poke around and see what's what

[cinder void]

The only one I've seen posted that is exactly what I'm looking for was posted four years ago and the coordinates for the system it was found in now say boundary error when I try to go there through a portal

[ivory adder]

Toss me those coords

In DM though, let's take this outta future

[dull field]

I think that's what upgrading them is for.

I kind of wish Hello Games would anti-confirm painting ships.

It feels like everyone is always talking about it like they never thought of it before.

Anyway, the more serious griefing I've seen isn't player killing, since PvP is disabled. It's base overlapping and such.

I also wish they added the option to disable comms ball overlays. It's annoying when every expedition, some dude drops balls about american politics.

[ivory adder]

Right, yeah. You can disable PVP and player aggression will impact you minimally, but the base computer trick is pretty nasty.

[dull field]

And you can't turn off seeing them, so you just fly away and get a bunch of messages on your screen.

Even barring the political ones, I'm not often looking to read them.

And if I was, there's the interaction menu.

[hot flame]

My suggestion would be a toggle for each of those icons: Comm balls, base - and maybe one for all? As in even the alien POIs or your own.

[dull field]

I mean, my top priority is the ones I can't stop.

[hot flame]

Ya

[dull field]

They might view this as unbalancing the maps system, since you could disable the kind you don't want. But I guess they could have it still map them, or go by category.

Honestly, the Map Blip Options in GTA are a good style for that maybe.

[hot flame]

By one for all - I meant just an "All"

[dull field]

Ahhh, I thought you were meaning more granular controls :P

[hot flame]

Just for player stuff

[dull field]

Oh, I was thinking different because of the alien POI thing

[primal fulcrum]

my hero academia One for all?

[dull field]

From the Three Musketeers?

[primal fulcrum]

Oh

[dull field]

I wonder if there's people who don't realize that's a Three Musketeers reference. Probably at least some. But that's not #nms-the-future.

[primal fulcrum]

I didn't know

But now I do

[dull field]

lmao

Their creed was "All for one and one for all."
Sort of "no man left behind" thing

[primal fulcrum]

Yes

I remember

Now

[dull field]

lol

I've submitted the save naming concept to HG.

I'm sure, again, it's nothing they haven't thought of.

Also, question, has there been any crossover content that isn't from Beachhead

Because if so, that opened the floodgates for the wildest speculation and requests considering it's a single instance.

[hot flame]

Not like that, no

They have the obvious nods to other sci fi content though

[dull field]

I hear people asking for crossover content from Star Wars and Metroid and Star Trek and anything else that has a space theme, but ugggh

[dull field]

Yeah, there's stargates and stuff

But almost nothing that's explicitly from another franchise entirely.

[hot flame]

Correct

Just the Normandy

[dull field]

And you can't even rename it 😔

[feral horizon]

This as freighter would be awesome

Or as a ship

[violet vortex]

No gifs in our NMS channels please. You may describe the type of ship you'd like as part of your discussion. If you're on Steam PC, you may also inquire in #nms-modding about custom ship designs that are already available.

[violet vortex]

posting a static image of the ship Mikael was referring to for anyone curious.

[pastel minnow]

Unpopular opinion:
Freighter entrances should be at the bottom instead of the top it spatially dorsn't make sense that you enter it at the top, run up some stairs and then build hallways in places where it feels like it's already way outside the freighter.
Instead of feeling like all those long ass hallways feelimg like they're in the middle of the freighter if you came from the bottom.

[desert bone]

on no. I have never thought about that and now i will not be able to not think about it.

[pastel minnow]

Now you're thinking about how it's weird that space stations have rooms with windows foe you to look out if you're in the very center of the station.

[ivory adder]

I end up rotating so that the entrance is on the bottom without thinking about it sometimes. Hangar bay is on the underside in Squadrons

[cinder void]

I always think about it because every time I modify the interior of my freighter I get visual glitches so I see the outside

[south dew]

There was an exclusive Xbox helmet that was a pre-order exclusive. Normandy is the only full other franchise item that is fully recognized. My previous statement regarding Metroid is based on the idea that the Normandy exists and a Nintendo exclusive item would be appreciated and not necessarily out of character for HG historically. Something as simple as Samus' helmet could be quite nice and the royal multi-tools help give the arm cannon effect. All that said I wouldn't say no to her ship as a pre-order exclusive! 😉😁

[ivory adder]

Samus stuff would be great but I gotta imagine navigating this deal would be a real pain if it weren't first offered by Nintendo

[cinder void]

I don't really think Nintendo has much incentive to offer that deal anyway... It's not like Metroid needs marketing

[pastel minnow]

OMG I would love to wear the Samus shoulder shrooms

[dire galleon]

Is this a channel for ideas?
I'd like to see the ship of the Apostle Atlas.
Texture: Similar to Atlas designs or monoliths.
Model: Elongated octahedron, with a cockpit nucleus in the center.
Feature: Passively charges the hyperdrive. Also, the ship cannot be modified with conventional technologies, but it has its own technologies, which are given by the Atlas in the quest line that can be dedicated to this ship

[gloomy hazel]

Is there not a way to rename saves in the files? Obviously a pc thing but surely it could be done

I wouldn't know for sure tho cos I'm a console player

[coral sandal]

I want biped mountable robot

Like clawstrider from latest Horizon

[gloomy hazel]

I think there are modders that can make the walkers as companions

I'll check their discord

[dull field]

You'd have to use a save editor, but maybe?

But as far as I can tell, they're only pulling the mode for the menu right?

[gloomy hazel]

Yeah just a way to rename the saves

[dull field]

I dont need the files renamed.

I need a way to tell the difference on the file select.

[gloomy hazel]

You mean like when you click play and it comes up with the saves you created?

[ionic coral]

Revamp of the hardframe minotaur. Basically eliminate the headframe upgrades they are kind of problematic because they take up 4 inventory slots on the minotaur despite being external components. Alternatively I would argue the Hardframe suit should be it's own unique variant of the minotaur with the components required for the headframe upgrades added to the cost of the geobay This allows a hardframe mech to be built from the ground up without the wasted inventory space.

[cinder void]

I mean.. The thing is a giant exoskeleton. You should have external hard points that you can mount things to on top of internal storage

[bronze valve]

I hope that one day we can salvage sentinel interceptors and fuse them with our ships to make our own special, custom ships. Similar to how we can make new creatures from eggs

[radiant sage]

Please another generation update I would love to explore new sights. Also as of right now only earth like planets are really beautiful. Every other planet just has ugly dirt or rocks. I’d really love to see improvements in other types of planets so they can actually be worth going to. Adding different biomes would also be rad. Beaches could also be improved

[slate ridge]

Yeah dusty planets have ugly ground textures

Some planets have ugly ground texture and weird plants

As much as I want more features the game needs some bug fixing, performance upgrade, and connecting features from previous updates together.

After that a huge customization update following up with a co-op update would be baller

And karma system on race standing as i mentioned before

[summer sequoia]

Would be nice if there is an update in the camera mode where we have the "Remove Asteroid" option

[opal prawn]

wish there's a way to recolor your starship…

[brazen nova]

I'd love to have landscapes like this on desert planets or dusty planets. Mesa landscapes. They are also found on Mars.

Kinda like the Grand Canyon and the desert in Arizona.

And some planets having a Sahara type desert biome with dunes and sandstorms and vegetation like the palm trees and more alien type vegetation.

[radiant sage]

Yeah that would be amazing. Also just adding more feel to the dirt, maybe if it is windy have it blow away. I also think they could definitely fix textures slightly to make it look more pleasing. Mountain sides as well look quite bad, if we got more realistic rocks I think it would look much better and up the game immensely

[gloomy hazel]

I thought of a cool feature that could be included with this

The player can sink down a bit into the sand and walk slower

Giving more use to the exocraft

[opaque mauve]

that'd be cool

[brazen nova]

Yeah

I’d also love to see ice on icy planets. Frozen lakes and icebergs in the seas and oceans. If you walk over the ice you slide a bit.

Or you slide a lot. Depending on how fast you walk or run.

[opaque mauve]

maybe if enough pressure is applied, like a Colossus or Minotaur, the ice could crack open

[ivory adder]

Destructable grass. Lawnmowers

[opaque mauve]

what about more interstellar combat? maybe actually using our freighters for something and fighting the sentinel dreadnought? also pvp with freighters would be sick imo. we could have expansions in the freighter to a weapons bay, engine room, hypercore room, etc. i think it'd be really cool, though it'd definitely be one hell of a project to take

[spark sonnet]

I want this

[static ridge]

They've just done a combat update, and what we have appears to be the limit of how far they wanted to go. It has been mentioned that this game is primarily about exploration and PvE. PvP and combat are very much secondary considerations

[opaque mauve]

true...

[static ridge]

I can see them doing more with settlements

It comes across very much as an initial iteration

However, polygon and memory limits are getting hit rapidly, and I suspect they arent sure how much more you could build on a settlement without impacting memory and causing massive crashes

[opaque mauve]

yeah that's also true

[static ridge]

Even the newest consoles are struggling

[opaque mauve]

what options do they have to help with the limits?

[static ridge]

and they have 32Gb of RAM

turn down the polygons, reduce details

[opaque mauve]

and with a game like this i'm sure they don't wanna do that

hmmm

[static ridge]

This is also a thing in Minecraft now

Minecraft is getting very memory hungry. Destructuble and fully craftable environments will do this

because the game is rendering and bitmapping everything on screen in full 3d

[pastel minnow]

Suggestion:
The arrows could stretch to indicate how far off-screen the enemy ships are like this this example.
Many times I overshot them and had to turn the other way because I can't tell when they'll get into view.

[opaque mauve]

that's why i just press S to lock on and then manual track from there. i feel like longer arrows would be excessive

[pastel minnow]

Well I don't like using it, but manually adjusting my ship is a pain specifically because I can't tell when the ship will come into view.

[opaque mauve]

might just be how i track/fly, idk. i think the arrows are fine

[pastel minnow]

It doesn't have to be stretched specifically, just.. any indication for where the ships are spatially apart from the general direction

[pastel minnow]

Another suggestion:
Let us place settlement products directly into the starship cargo slot

Because doing this... one by one... ain't fun 😔

[cinder void]

Yeah, the cargo thing is frustrating

IMO all stuff should go into ship cargo first, then the rest of the general slots

It's like having a pickup truck, but filling up the cab first before you put stuff in the bed

[brazen nova]

WHOOPS

[opaque mauve]

?

[brazen nova]

Depends on the exocraft haha. I guess you'll sink to ||The Abyss|| with a colossus 🤣🤣🤣

[opaque mauve]

lol

[brazen nova]

If you crack through the ice.

[gloomy hazel]

Idkkkk it's got 8 wheels

[opaque mauve]

ah

[gloomy hazel]

High surface area

[brazen nova]

It's still huge and heavy

[opaque mauve]

yeah

mino and col would definitely break ice

[spark sonnet]

They'd need to start the chat somehow, I guess.

[opaque mauve]

huh

[spark sonnet]

Nvm, it was a stupid joke

[brazen nova]

You'll also be able to slide on the ice with a minotaur or any exocraft. If you use the boost you will slide very far away. Having ice added in NMS will definitely lead to some funny exocraft stunts.

[opaque mauve]

yeah

[brazen nova]

I also imagine sentinel walkers and sentinel mechs sinking through the ice and getting stuck lmao.

[opaque mauve]

lol

[gloomy hazel]

Nah nah I got it, it was funny

[slate ridge]

yeah the sand planets should look like that honestly

they can look like that all they need is a ground retexture

another thing is that I rarely see dusty planets with clear skies

blue skies

its mostly foggy as shit lol

[gloomy hazel]

Might be a reason for this xD

[opaque mauve]

ok so i was getting help from @ivory adder (thanks so much for the help btw), and i really wanna see a fix for the game before any more content. talking to them and comparing it to what i'm able to run, we really need an optimization/bug fix update before any content in my opinion. if we want more content, how can we enjoy it through bugs 'n stuff?

[slate ridge]

Yeah I totally agree with you, I was mentioning earlier that the games needs a huge bug fix and performance update

game is super buggy

and it frames a lot

[cinder void]

All they got to do is port the entire thing to unreal engine 5... What would that take like a weekend? /s

[opaque mauve]

if it makes the game run better let's make 'em do it haha

[opal prawn]

for some reason i kinda wish you get sentinel wanted level for selling contrabands in space stations in non outlaw systems

oh and the more contrabands sold in there, the more wanted level you'll gain

[cinder void]

I personally love how every level of wanted is a death sentence

The only difference is how powerful the thing that kills you is and how many of them there are

[opal prawn]

hmmm

why can't the creative mode be configurable like in terraria journey mode

[fallen hawk]

hoping that a future update to freighters allows the construction of windows on them. honestly that's all I'd really want to improve my experience with building in my freighter, that and the ability to have a "room" span multiple floors

[loud raptor]

Am I the only one hoping for a more peaceful update next?

[coral sandal]

I hope that there is update which improves inventory management. Now I don't do farming, resource mining, refining and complex products crafting, because it is too difficult to manage the inventory. I hate moving items between inventories
It would be nice if you could assign each resource/item to specific inventory and maybe even inventory cell. I wish there is autosort button, which moves items between inventories. I wish there is an automated mode for base refiners, so you can just assign a refinery task and the resources are automatically refined and stored. When you craft something complex, then it would be nice if components are crafted instantly, without the need to craft them separately

[modest tree]

I agree I also wish that if you wanted to craft something that needed components to craft it but you have the resources needed to craft the components to craft the thing you wanted to craft in the first place, it would craft those while crafting the thing you wanted to craft
(How many times did I just craft? Idk)

[spark sonnet]

W a r

[opaque mauve]

WAR WAR WAR
(seriously tho a peaceful update would be nice, but i would much rather there be an optimization update before anything else)

[elfin wigeon]

I'd love an exploration update focused on planets. More reasons to stay on the same planet and explore

[spark sonnet]

An optimization update would be great. Not sure if they'd do it now tho

[opaque mauve]

i'd rather they do, honestly. my whole argument is "how can we enjoy new content if it's riddled with bugs and lag?"

[spark sonnet]

"Add more content"

But yeah, this is something I can only wish for, for now (a long with a lot of other things). Hopefully in the near future

When they have time to insert it into their roadmap, or something.

[vast path]

Seems to me that they generally try to include performance optimizations alongside new content in most updates.

[gloomy hazel]

Because nms creative is just a new difficulty and not a complete different mode

[opaque mauve]

i'm newer to the game so i hope this is true, but honestly one huge update should be focused on optimization imo. it's just pain to try and play sometimes

[gloomy hazel]

What specifically is going on with your game?

I've had my fair share of issues but I've had way less since the latest update

[opaque mauve]

consistent lag, frame drops, slow terrain loading, max CPU usage

trust me i've tried absolutely everything, you can ask @ivory adder

[gloomy hazel]

What's the specs of your computer?

Might need more of some stuff

Also do a deep scan for viruses.etc
Might be an issue elsewhere in your pc and not necessarily nms itself

[opaque mauve]

i5-9600k, 3060Ti FTW3, 16GB RAM

[gloomy hazel]

From that it seems like it would be the latter of what I said

I assume you use windows so use the w-defender deep scan function

Literally scans every single file in your computer and flags stuff that really shouldn't be there

I did that on mine and I went from 100 CPU down to about 40

[opaque mauve]

i'll try it again but last time i ran it there were no viruses

[gloomy hazel]

Deep scans are really long so do it overnight

Mine was a 16 hour scan

Also (probably done already) update all your system software

[vast path]

they need to do something about some ships being too big for current space stations.

[ivory adder]

I want an emote that lets me point straight up for as long as I want

[vast path]

I hope Exo-craft get an overhaul to their Inventory and tech

[north snow]

it would be cool of you could buy obsolete stuff on abandoned systems

[vast path]

why tho?

they should also fix the rotation axis on flags. It would make more sense for the main axis of rotation to be at the flag pole.

[gloomy hazel]

Did they make it so you could colour the hard frame much?

[gloomy hazel]

We should be able to make freighter fleets like the ones that spawn in systems

Like have a main capital ship and then other freighters that can add bonuses such as warp distance or extra turret damage

[spark sonnet]

That's me

It's just on all the time

[fathom tusk]

I would to see some of the bird and bat Fauna to actually land and catch something at least where can befriend them

[winged dagger]

is this the place to talk about suggestions?

[spark sonnet]

Potential future stuff and suggestions as well

For real suggestions, you might want to send it to their zendesk

[winged dagger]

well I wanna discuss it before I do that

[spark sonnet]

Alrighty

[winged dagger]

so my suggestion is about ship customization which is a highly requested feature but also one that has some backlash to it

my Idea is basically a ship update

I was digging though some old concept art and here they are

I cant post images

welp

the ideas was basically for hello games to use some of the assets from concept art that didnt make it into the game for Shuttles, Explorers, Fighters, Haulers that you can find in Beau Lamb's Artstation

and also bring decals

I feel ship customization should at the moment be limited to changing the color of your ship and maybe adding decals

it already exists for exocraft and freighters so why not ships

https://beaulamb.artstation.com/projects/KdLd4

heres his artstation in case you are wondering what I mean

[gloomy hazel]

Those building concepts look sick

[winged dagger]

yeah

[gloomy hazel]

Can probably tell why they aren't in tho

The frames will cease to exist lol

[spark sonnet]

Yessir everyone wants custom ships

[fathom tusk]

I would like to aee nore sea creatures like actual squids Sea Turtle like creatires and even some Pleiosaur like creature that doesn't attack and even dolphin creature that defend you from sharks and abyssal horrors

[half verge]

deep sea exploration please

[coral sandal]

Some of them are really cool. I like it

It would be nice if there were more ships parts available for procedural generation

[vast path]

No, I’m using a recolor mod. You pick the .pak file that has the color you want.

[vast path]

Yeah, most of the “oceans” are only like 70u deep at most. I want to see deeper oceans.

[half verge]

Yeah, and also they seem too normal for oceans. Everytime I'm exploring them, I always know what's coming.

Facing the unknown is the main key for exploration games.

[granite cosmos]

Big crystals, kelp, sponges and maybe a thermal vent here and there
Always the same

I'm not asking for Subnautica levels of ocean variety, but maybe enough for some whale like things

[slate ridge]

I feel like they should bring full ship customization with chaning parts and everything but it should be achived through a huge investment of time and work. I would propose that ship customization should be unlocked when you fullfill two requirements:

1. Ship chosen for customization must be S class

2. Must unlock a ship manufacturing/customization room in freighter which has a large down payment and costs a bit to maintain and change ship parts (think of gta los santos customs)

Also, all interchangeable ship parts won’t be available instantly. To obtain ship parts you have to discover their blueprints to manufacture them. These can be obtained in many ways like:

1. Rare chance of obtaining part blueprint through scrapping ship. (Part types will depend on the type of ship you scrap)

2. Through achievement a milestone or expeditions

3. Raiding Facilities and nexus missions. (Missions will give you a random part from a random ship type while raiding a facility can let you pick a random part from a specific ship type)

4. Rare chance of obtaining blueprint from destroying pirate ships. (Again, blueprints depend on type of ship destroyed)

Again, ship manufacturing room will cost a fortune to install and will require constant supply of materials to operate. It will also cost nanites for every part you decide to change. I think this is a great idea to introduce customization and personalization without hurting ship hunting since it would take grinding to customize your ship and a looong time to unlock every ship part blueprint. This would help prevent the mindset of “I will just get a c class shuttle cus it doesn’t matter I will customize it anyways” since it will be more practical to grab a high tier good looking ship because the ship will be kept the way it is for a while and it can be customized sooner if you decide to seek for a higher class ship.

[ionic walrus]

Rideable frigates and you can also stop anywhere to go around inside the frigate. Basically a smaller version of the freighter but you can ride it around anywhere

Freighter Overhaul, they've been the same since

Enemies spawning more in creative since your immortal

INDUSTRIAL OVERHAUL, put satisfactory stuff in there or something, i wanna feel productive

The abyss overhaul, i feel like underwater stuff is being ignored.

[hushed cedar]

This isn't really a game changing feature,but, add text chat to the consoles.(Idk if it's already there but I can't access it)

[opal prawn]

wish we can sort inventory anyway

my exosuit inventory is already a mess

[north snow]

so the space stations are outdated and it would make sense if they have outdated materials too

[main pecan]

Underwater leviathans would be badass. Let me put guns on my Nautilon and fight some sea monsters!

[opaque mauve]

very good idea ngl

very in depth

[carmine otter]

I would rather a slightly less grindy system, such as when you scrap the ship you get all the parts but single use, and cannot swap, must actually build it from scratch. This ship would then be a c class no matter if it's exotic or anything, and you would need to invest more currency into upgrading it. I just think the system you have outlined would be about as tedious to get all the parts as finding a near-perfect ship

[fallen hawk]

i would be very interested in mid-size ships that are still directly pilotable

[toxic slate]

For me I always start with "it would be cool to have this gameplay system" and then work back to the implementation. Like sure in theory a multicrew mini-freighter would be cool, but unless the game systems were deepened to allow for them to be useful, they would end up like the exocrafts

[fallen hawk]

very true

all things considered, this game is mostly on-foot

[gloomy hazel]

Could make them x class and not upgradeable, locked at a storage of C maybe B class amounts of slots

[carmine otter]

Seems like then nobody would use it tho if it couldn't be as good as even somewhat common ships

[raw marsh]

biggest thing is ship interiors in my opinion. Introduce a new type of ship all together

[raw ginkgo]

A ship but it's like a tandem bicycle. So you can cruise with a friend. :)

[pastel minnow]

I have a suggestion more ambitious than flowing water. More ambitious than gas giants. More ambitious than teraforming.

An option to toggle "hold to interact" and "click to interact"

[half verge]

rideable frigates

[elfin lily]

I mean, you can do that in inventories so would make sense lol

[flint gate]

This game should have ultra rare base parts, placable ancient artifacts and other items that are un-dupable and come with their own "signature" for authenticity. Something you have to actively hunt down to find and procure, and that cant be given away easily. Something that shows you actually "play" the game.

[gloomy hazel]

How about proc gen races in abandoned and uncharted systems

[toxic slate]

oh no.... please don't give them ideas to put NFTs in the game

[gloomy hazel]

These exist as expedition rewards

Also we could maybe get museum showcases for artifacts from underwater/underground ruins

Just like a floating version of the item in some sort of gravity well

[toxic slate]

I would rather have very rare equipment that you can find through exploration, weapon/suit mods that are purely procedural and introduce abilities and effects you can't get on any normal upgrade

[flint gate]

Id rather have anything other than a community of dupe- aholics tbh. This game is great, community is great. Duping got old years ago.

[toxic slate]

the idea of digging for treasure is great, they just need to put....actual treasure there. unique, rare things that you actually want to search for

[flint gate]

Not really, when people just cheat for the unlocks or get it duped for them

[gloomy hazel]

Well not without mods

Only the eggs and ships can be duped

Also everything can be modded in

Even if it had a 'signature' that could just be modded in too

The idea is good though

I like the idea of being able to just stumble across some ancient artifact and place it on my freighter

And no one else will ever have that exact item

[flint gate]

No, the whole exp can be glitched through. Theres nothing in this game you cant cheat to get. Thats what breaks this game for me is that so many people in the community just freeride their way to glamor in the game, but if they took the long road, they would see a richer game.

[toxic slate]

i just would want them to be useful and not just for bragging rights

[gloomy hazel]

The expedition can only be glitched on PC

And why glitch when save editor exista

[flint gate]

And on console too, your right. Someone posted a link about it in lfg last night and thats where my frustration started to fester. Sometimes.... this game.....

[gloomy hazel]

It can be glitched on console?

[dull field]

Is that not literally in the options

Or is that just for menus

I kept it on Hold so

[pastel minnow]

It affects some things, but it's not applied through the whole game.
It doesn't affect gameplay, mostly inventory and some menu stuff

[dull field]

Ah, gotcha.

Add that to my QoL wishes

Oop, looks like I cant edit a message that old

[fathom tusk]

I know we have Grunts but I want to see more primate like critters

[ionic coral]

The flag preventing underwater structures from being placed above sea level needs to be removed. It is a pointless and arbitrary mechanic which makes no sense and prevents players from building functional surface accesses to underwater bases. Any structure designed for the pressure of deep ocean would be structurally sound and able to be placed anywhere Although it is possible to connect standard rooms to underwater buildings there is a bug that arises doing this where the player will pass through water while climbing down ladders something that could be avoided if vertical tubes could be built up above the surface. In the grand scheme f things the building restriction here has no positive effects on game play but is somewhat detrimental and generates wonky ness for larger bases that excist above and below the surface of a body of water and should be fixed. Frankly they should have taken the subnautica approach to universal building modules instead of separating them like they did given the above and underwater modules use basically the same mesh but the underwater come with free windows.

[timid vigil]

Honestly having a squadron is just a way for you to get extra ship designs that you like but don't have room in your garage for

[clear fern]

Two request
1 add very low chance of "proto-korvax" and "proto-vy'keen" fauna just to freak out players
2 plz make it possible to look up when swimming

Note: 1 could be implemented easily with just two new head parts for the existing protogek fauna body type

[icy onyx]

should be able to explore with squadron even within the planet.
'You are mining'
'You protect the base'
'You follow me and escort me'
'You repair the ship' (eg warp cell)

[unreal wasp]

Make freighters manually fly able

[pastel minnow]

I'd rather see planetary frigates have the same mechanics of planetary ships where they rise up to avoid clipping into the ground

[spark sonnet]

Make frigates flyable

[unreal wasp]

Make it so that you can grow different weapons onto your living ship that would instead of taking 24hrs take like around 1-3 hrs depending on the weapon.

[pale pawn]

Make player-player ship trading possible, it would be really cool imo

[toxic slate]

these poor squadron pilots don't even get paid and now you want them to do manual labor for you

[dusk yew]

Causing a galactic size war with one of the main races would be fun

[torn fractal]

What if the next NMS was a fully fleshed out MMO, could definitely work I think

[dusk yew]

as long as i can still play that offline singleplayer

[silk mirage]

Make an interior for shuttles and haulers

[ivory adder]

Develop and release an odor dispenser for added gameplay immersion loaded with capsules marketed as Gek pheremones that will release anytime a Gek decides to fart at you instead of just explaining what he was thinking

[rotund stratus]

I'd absolutely love to have my pets roam around my base

[radiant sage]

Make the game a few touches prettier 🥰

[ivory adder]

option to rename food items

[stark vortex]

+ Remove the Total Construction Limit
+ Remove the Base (upload) consutruction limit

[brazen nova]

I’d love too see more variation in the QS weekend missions. I’ve rescued pilots several times now lol.

[mighty nebula]

i wish there were rideable sea fauna

[opal prawn]

oh yeah

so uh, no chances new (and playable) race to be added to the game?

[stark vortex]

I doubt it

[rugged mist]

The ability to chain warps and not have to go from one system at a time

[opaque mauve]

same, they get boring and repetitive after a while

[opaque mauve]

it would be nice to see, but i doubt that they'll add new races

[opaque mauve]

that's just increasing your warp drive range. get S tier warp drive upgrades for your ship / freighter. i'm able to go six seven or even nine systems at a time due to how many upgrades i have

[rugged mist]

Now I feel stupid I didn’t know that was a thing

[opaque mauve]

all g, it takes a bit to understand

i was thinking the same thing when i first started

then i realized that upgrades existed and felt like i moron

[unreal wasp]

Make it so in freighter battle encounters there’s a 1 in 5 chance to have 2 freighters with several turrets shooting at each other with starships from both sides fighting each other and it’s our job to destroy the enemy freighter ( make it so that our freighter is able to warp in and our turrets from the freighters are able to shoot the enemy freighter also but in return some stuff on your freighter will be broken needing repair)

Would be a awesome update but this message probably will never get acknowledged just nice to try ig

I too if this add 1-3 combat frigates on both sides which would be completely destroyable instead of just sounding the alarms.

And in the concept of the enemy freighter I know it would not be destroyed so in the case where all the enemy starships are destroyed and at least 1 frigate ( frigates will be easy to destroy) it would warp away to support the “ freighters can’t be destroyed “ concept.

[grand shard]

I'm hoping some day there will be full co-op play - a way for a group of people who are friends outside of the game can play, explore, and build a base together, along with the current multiplayer setup

[unreal wasp]

This of course would be more than usual freighter battles where you just destroy the starships so there would be a higher chance of a s tier freighter in all system types

Let me mention that this encounter would not be able to occur in abandoned systems seeing 2 freighters in a abandoned system would be very rare to see.

My idea of a cool update

probably won’t be seen

Would be awesome if it was

I don’t believe anything here is seen

but if it is I believe this would be a awesome update

Would take some time tho.

[worldly crown]

Ability to copy and paste friend codes for PC players, Idk if it would work for console or not

[drowsy fox]

I want them to increase the maximum unit cap and add something or a collection of things that cost like a billion units or something so that there is something else to work towards money wise.

[rotund stratus]

Prediction: this will be a pass on fauna, like the last two passed over sentinels and pirates

New activities, maybe variations, behaviours, rewards for interacting etc

I'd like to see cooking make more relevant too

Creatures are honestly the biggest point of improvement I can see being tackled in an update

A non anniversary x.0 update at least

Or it'll be space whales lol

[slate ridge]

Space whales

[brazen nova]

Maybe even bigger creatures.

[regal venture]

i think after the next 3 or 4 expeditions they should do another revisited. maybe it could be a normal thing so its easier for players who missed some of them

[icy onyx]

Like an e3 trailer?

I wish I could report it after scanning plants and animals. (Separate from upload)

[rotund stratus]

Would be nice

[thorn minnow]

elemental damage systems would be cool

[gloomy hazel]

Ditto on that. I was at school when they revisited all the previous expeditions and didn’t have Time to do them. Was super sad I missed out on the golden vector

[crimson finch]

Track IR or other similar head tracking support would be awesome

[rotund stratus]

Honestly with the short time between the last update and now, this could be an expedition

[elfin wigeon]

I don't see how they would improve water and oceans considerably without a world overhaul/reset. So I guess this update is related to living freighters and/or fauna improvements

[elfin wigeon]

and there is that too

anyway... lower your expectations lol

[lilac warren]

Living freighters would be sick

[hollow aurora]

So

ABout the whale

[gloomy hazel]

How about a way to make low orbit stations without cheesing it?

[teal pagoda]

Hg definitely needs to rip off some stuff from star citizen to have better success

You can't drink beer

Which you can in star citizen

Just an example

[sly bramble]

The one thing this game needs for me to be satisfied is fleet combat

[pale zealot]

Noooo

[toxic slate]

I wish they would improve the water graphics, at least to be on the level of Subnautica

NMS water continues to look like 15 years behind the rest of the industry for some reason

[visual cloak]

Subnautica water looks very nice

[toxic slate]

yeah the combination of the surface waves (even if they are just a shader), the murkiness of the water, the tiny bits of particles floating around, and the buoyancy of the physics lends a lot to the experience that you're in the water in Subnautica

[stray citrus]

Yes but they should be gentle on us using low end PCs

[toxic slate]

I mean I've got a low-end PS4 so I feel you. but I don't think Subnautica is doing anything ridiculous with their water rendering, I think a lot of it is art direction creating a lot more immersion

[stray citrus]

Yeah I can run subnautica perfectly!! But in this game, I have to downgrade my resolution to 1280x720 and make the resolution scale at 70% to rum it at 20-30 fps lol

[fallen hawk]

as long as you don't take pointers from subnautica's water surface, lol

doesn't look great at long distance/at significant heights

but stuff like snell's window, water caustics at shallow depths, better fog, and shifting away from red (or a different color depending on random generation?) at a distance would all do well to improve underwater graphical immersion

[clear fern]

Honestly, just changing the... surface shader?... from that weird receding-waterline thing it does would already do a world of good. I really hope they add unique stuff underwater, would make it cooler to make an underwater base.

[stone sparrow]

Multiplayer doesn't really work at the moment. An overhaul to multiplayer would be very welcome in my books. At the very least, they'll need to add a few multiplayer-focused activities and give every player the same objective.

That way, friends can help out on story missions and other things.

[ivory adder]

More personality traits for pets

and lifespans

Make a gun that sends my opponent to a personalized ad

[sharp cipher]

I hope this is an underwater update. I want to be able to build a proper underwater base with walls and floors and not just the deep water chambers that we have right now.

[ebon pine]

Probably a controversial one, but the ability to purchase something like Exhibition tickets with quicksilver to get some of the older items people might've missed on other saves.

[spark sonnet]

On board with that idea.

But I guess it also renders the "limited time" aspect of an item pointless, making it less "special" ig?

But it is a good thing imo

[fossil thicket]

i hope the sentinel nests do something other than just provide a possible multitool

would be nice to get modules from them

[analog rose]

I hope the third rare multi-tool (or change the spec of the existing two rare types)
....Simply I am feeling bad with alien types. (it looks...)😰

But I want the highest attack power. so I hope another an option for it.

[rugged compass]

if i recall correctly, adding upgrades to your weapons on a multitool will increase its attack power :)

[analog rose]

The multitools have different spec for each type. And then the upgrade values are added to that. Isn't it?
(I believe the alien type had the highest basic specs in attack power, and rare two types were next of it)

So alien type specs are appealing, but that looks... I didn't want touch it. 🤢 🐛 🪱 🪳 💀

[unkempt shell]

with Royal multitools being reskinned Experimentals in terms of statistics, I could see them adding an Alien-reskinned weapon class soon. maybe they could take inspiration from the Banned Weapons tradeable: weaponry made from the remains of dead Sentinels would make a great high-damage multitool class, with a more industrial/high tech look. the icon for the Banned Weapons tradeable is even pretty well detailed! looks like they put Sentinel armour on top of an Experimental body

[heavy willow]

So, crazy idea, maybe a ship builder where you have to find or trade (with Nanites) for blueprints to unlock parts for your ship. But would cost massive amounts of Units (bc your building instead of buying or locating broken ships) to build depending on the class and ship type.

I guess adding or removing inventory space would also add or remove the cost.

[loud mulch]

wait...

Living Freighters...?

that sounds crazy and weird but also awesome at the same time

[weak dagger]

@gray hedge I think the change is just an aim on the developers behalf to do more technically. Not that there was anything wrong with how it looked before, I suppose for a smaller studio looking at a Triple-A production there’s an impetus to compete in a sense “well, if this game has this then we should also have that” kind of attitude e.g. corpuscular raise, volumetric clouds, tessellation. Though I think it primarily stems from a desire to innovate and incrementally improve their work.

[visual cloak]

or a joe danger cape

tiny cape

[ebon pine]

We all know he's hiding in some inaccessible part of the Anomaly

[rigid night]

you've actually been playing as joe danger the entire time

you just can't remove the helmet

[ebon pine]

The lore the Devs don't want us to know about

[rigid night]

i would unironically rock a tiny cape if it meant I got the scanner ball that's over your shoulder back and a bigger pack for the cape to attach to in general

like, cape is cool

i just want a bigger pack under it

[ebon pine]

YOOOOOO

[sharp hamlet]

I realllllly hope 4.0/update 20s big reveal isn't a Switch release. I want something big like 3.0. I'm gonna be really disappointed if 4.0s big thing is a freaking Switch release, not a big content reveal like it should be for 4.0. Make 4.1 A Switch release or something, I want 4.0 to actually be a big update

[gloomy hazel]

ok

[hot flame]

Np

[half spire]

I agree I'd be a little disappointed too honestly speaking

[hot flame]

Next was the release coinciding with release on the Xbox

[real reef]

men, every update my mind ends saturated with new ideas... just imagine this... A huge leviathan whale spawns behind you while you're on your business across the space. and starts chasing you, like the anglerfish.. then, a new mini game begins and you need to follow a scape vector to avoid beign eaten. If you can't manage to complete the mini game you'll spawn inside the Leviathan with your ship broken. A new procedurally generated flesh-maze environment, where you need to find resources (from previously eaten ships or even, frigates as this thing should be very huuuge) to repair your ship. You need to do as quick as posible because a strong toxic environment damage is killing you slowly. New dangers like parasites and corrosive fluids could be spawn inside this thing and so...

[visual cloak]

yw

[cloud zinc]

Monolith of Temptation

This structure is a new Monolith in the form of a challenge tower. A rare structure that does not spawn often, so other in game structures will likely need to be explored to hint at the possibility of this structure existing nearby.

Upon your physical first contact with this Monolith, the size of this structure is supremely tall, sleek, and mysterious. However intimidating it may be at first, it calls to you. Daring you to seek entry.

To enter, you must use a key found from excavations or risk spending resources. Spending your hard earned resources is more expensive compared to the key, but is more accessible.

You now have access to the first of many floors. Now in the interior, you can look up to witness the grand beautiful design that seems to extend into infinity. You question if the structure you saw outside is really true to what is inside.

More importantly, the first portal activates. Standing just beside the portal is a smaller monolith, holding information about your objective to complete when walking into the world beyond the portal. Which upon completion, you will be returned to this small monolith to claim a reward. But it does not end here. The monolith entices you more, it speaks with temptation.

"Creature of the skies, you have claimed your reward. Should you desire more, seek the next portal and your riches will multiply. Should you desire no more, you will keep what you have earned."

Now what is the risk? Yes you may continue completing portal after portal, but if you fail to complete an objective, or die. You will lose all your rewards. It is your choice to go as far as you can, and risk losing it all, or leave richer than ever before.

So upon completing a portal, you will go to the next floor where a tougher challenge awaits.

Now this content can be spun a ton of different ways. Share your ideas.

TL;DR
A challenge tower with increasing difficulty each floor. Varying objectives for each challenge. Rewards based on the number of floors completed, where death or failure of the challenge means you lose all the rewards.

For the sake of convenience, the player can enter this tower as many times as they want, provided they have the keys or resources necessary to enter at all.

[sharp hamlet]

How many months should update 20 be away? Would it only be a few months as this update was only am expedition?

[gloomy hazel]

July/August is a pretty safe bet but not an official timeframe.
Next update will be the yearly "big" update that will more than likely release when it releases on Nintendo Switch.

[dusk yew]

Some melee weapons would be cool

[scarlet lily]

Ship Customization?

Color Schemes

Ship Accessories/Parts belonging to systems (Gek/Vykeen/Korvax/Traveller Wing Alpha, Beta, Etc.

Number of customization options varying by S,A,B,C Tiers

[fair halo]

While i am definetly happy for the update i would not mind if the problem with falling through the planet whenever you teleport got fixed.

I have to build my teleporters 1 to 2 floors up to compensate for this.

[dusk yew]

ship customization would be nice

[red abyss]

If they gave me a reason to mass produce Stasis Devices, I wouldnt need to play any other game.

[sharp hamlet]

:O

[umbral geyser]

Can we get actual quality of life changes and overhauls to existing core features of the game instead of new weird stuff that is only interesting for 1 or 2 days

[rough rampart]

Sentinel Freighters should be made more interesting.

You will be able to destroy specific parts of the freighter to disable it, while sentinel interceptors continue to spawn.

You will have two choices when this happens. To destroy it as a whole and get large amounts of raw resources as well as some extra tradeables, low reward and get it done with, or to enter the freighter and fight through large amounts of sentinels, sentinel mechs and walkers to get rare and valuable resources. High risk high reward.

You will find sentinel tech mods, possibly prototype sentinel weaponry, valuable minerals (such as activated indium) etc... Until you get to the end of the freighter where you will be able to disable sentinels for the entire system and some nearby systems but at the loss of a very rare sentinel item, or grab the item and escape the freighter, allowing it to re-activate and call in reinforcements.

From there, you will be unable to destroy/disable the freighter, but if you fight through enough interceptors you will be able to escape with all your new items.

Also, the rooms in the freighter will be procedurally generated per system.

[stark ingot]

I wanna see more types of creature parts and new types of creatures in a future update

E.g. more carnivorous animal parts and special structures called "creature dens" that have a large amount of a den dwelling creature

[exotic zealot]

Definitely want all the expedition stuff like worm infested planets and space whales added to normal mode

[fallen hawk]

it'd be neat to get stuff like the Waveform engine from Expedition three in regular games

[elfin wigeon]

wait, they are not? not even the space whales?

[exotic zealot]

Not that I've seen

Or not that I've searched up. Looked everywhere in game and out and everyone says you cant

Closest you can get to space whales is the reward for this expedition afaik

[elfin wigeon]

that sucks

[sharp hamlet]

I hope 4.0 is like 3.0 and makes the game even prettier as a whole

[elfin wigeon]

next update comes and we get a 3.10 instead of a 4.0 lol

[sharp hamlet]

Well we are on 3.90 so it's little late for 3.10

[white wave]

I think something like a giant ship-customization thing would be cool
Imagine the Living Ship questline, except with more options for appearance and... y'know, for a not-living ship.
It'd give more creative freedom, and people wouldn't have to spend God knows how long searching for the perfect ship for them just to realize it's a C tier. That might just be me tho, idk

[modest basin]

I would love to be able to put decals on my ship, it would make them more personalized and feel more used.

[timid vigil]

Honestly I'd be pretty content if they added a rougelike mode to the base game

It's a pretty dope idea

I do agree though. For all the neat little side activities, there's a lot that's really stale.

Food is almost completely useless

Freighters are basically just idle resouce gatherers

[toxic slate]

i wish we could remove the decals they added to ships back in NEXT or Beyond or whenever that was, it makes some of them look more like toys

but I do wish ships would get damage after attacks... blast damage, maybe hull damage, that you have to pay to repair

[fallen hawk]

If you find the perfect ship but it’s not the right tier, you can hang around in that system and at the very least get it as an A-tier. Plus you can upgrade a ship’s tier anyway

[fallen hawk]

A greater level of ship customization would be nice. not “allowing people to paint their ship” but stuff like adding and removing decals, altering wear levels, etc would be very welcome. Perhaps the bobbleheads and ship trails could be moved to this customization menu as well, no longer taking up space in the inventory

[pale zealot]

Instead of a big “content” update for 4.0 can we just get lots of improvements to existing systems and qol changes?
(Settlements, freighters, bases, farming, creatures, exploring, vr, etc.) just basically tie every system added in the last 2 years into a more cohesive whole with the gameplay and story

[soft marsh]

I hope we have ship paintjob/decal customization same as that in rebel galaxy outlaw

[fallen hawk]

why not both?

content that improves existing systems

[white wave]

To be fair, it'd probably take a loooong time to develop

[gloomy hazel]

Worm infested planets are findable outside of the expedition

[white wave]

I think it'd be cool if there were missions where you deliver space pizza :troll:

[dreamy jetty]

Honestly that's where I think Beyond was heavily underrated. The resource limit alone was worth the wait lol

[pale zealot]

@dreamy jetty I agree, beyond is underrated (I only play in VR) so as beyond v2 update would be nice, more multiplayer quests, more qol and game reworks, and more VR support just adding onto beyonds main three pillars

[exotic zealot]

Not the ones where you got cursed dust pr whatever and fought worms and they were constantly about. In normal they're rare occurances on random planets but the expectation had the really common on certain planets

[dusk yew]

yes please will make it more intresting

[tender lava]

More VR support would be incredible. Some sort of immersive reloading, being able to interact with stuff more naturally... all that good stuff. I really hope they do work on it some more

Id love to have grenades I can actually throw or something

Id also love to see a guild system like Warframe's. Where people come together to donate resources and build up a "super frigate" or something, with all kinds of unlockable research stations for creating epic gear. Clans can participate in massive PvP and PvE events and stuff

[atomic hemlock]

Could it be possible to (re)link Inventory and Cargo ? To avoid having to manually manage items that are placed in Inventory when they could be added to an existing stack in the Cargo (Both for Exosuit and Ship).
(Tell me if it's the wrong place to say this.)

[fair halo]

just bug fixes. all i want.

[vapid rapids]

just more ships

more

more

[unkempt shell]

shocked and appalled that hg have yet to add a blacked out Sentinel Interceptor as a reward for one of these expeditions 🙃

i'd like to see them refresh the other ship classes like they did with explorers last year. some of the texturing on fighters in particular make them look like paper atm

[white wave]

I love this idea /\

Also, is Oculus support possible? [Specifically for Quest 2? I'd pay another 60 bucks for NMS on VR if I had to.]

[toxic slate]

TIRED: Expeditions that offer no game improvements, just bragging rights items (Leviathan)
WIRED: Expeditions that weave new features into their stories and make the whole game better (Outlaws)

let's have no more of the first kind

[wintry siren]

Ship customizationnnnnn pleeeeease

[spark sonnet]

Leviathans is just filler content to keep us busy for a short while until the next update.

Outlaws came a month prior

[toxic slate]

not an excuse really.. don't run filler content IMO. and I doubt 4.0 is coming any time soon. maybe in the fall

[still zinc]

Hey guys I have a concept for nms, there was a whale reference in some stuff and what I think for the reference is that there will a living freighter, fr imagine a living friegter, that would be so cool!

[spark sonnet]

You'd rather not have content for a short period while waiting for another update?

[toxic slate]

Yes, I'd rather updates that we get be meaningful in terms of adding new features and improvements

[spark sonnet]

That wouldn't happen in a single month though, would it

That's why we have filler stuffs.

[elfin wigeon]

I'd really like more of what they done with desolation. Cool indoor exploration, with shooting and puzzles. They could make ruins with dungeons on planets with that system

About expeditions/missions, if they could find a way for the community to create them, would be great. Like a planned route with objectives. The same way we can access community bases maybe we could access community expeditions/missions...

[toxic slate]

That's the point. We don't need filler stuff every month. Take time, craft great stories, and pair them with meaningful features that actually move the game forward.

[ivory adder]

Get the guy that made Storm Chasers on steam to update the tornadoes in NMS

[spark sonnet]

Filler stuff prepared before hand by different team. Other team focuses on content, prevents burn out. Not a game dev, but they knew we would need something before 4.0

[spark sonnet]

Storms

[fallen hawk]

Wait, there’s two dev teams?

[spark sonnet]

No what I meant to say is that their team is organized in a way that allows them to focus on multiple parts of the game.

[chrome schooner]

Spore: Galactic Adventures had something like that 🙂

[mental quest]

More tools?

Like maybe special tools that can be carried alongside multitools but function differently and have different controls?

This isn't the best example but think about it as like having a sword and a multitool

Maybe that would overcomplicate things idk

[ivory adder]

No more speed limit during Sentinel intercept

[worn kettle]

Melee weapons like a useable Vy'keen dagger

[wintry siren]

More gestures and armor sets! More jetpack trails!

I'd also love for the fauna parameters to be increased. More fauna types, more possibly body parts for pre-existing fauna, etc

[modest jacinth]

a proper system/panel to access global stats, like total defence, total damage, etc. There's already one for the ship, but not for the exosuit 😦

[dreamy jetty]

Ability to fly horizontally when using jetpacks and weapon wheel

[true seal]

I'm sure it's been requested 1000 times but, a way to at least recolor your ships

[whole cliff]

Please make predators more aggresive and deadly in survival mode (preferably adding giant predators). It would 100% make exploration more rewarding.

Also give them better attack animations and better hitbox detection. I feel like im being attacked by ghosts, and that's not really immersive.

[digital lintel]

Give even more randomized variety to animals, similar to spore maybe lol also deeper more intimidating oceans or maybe even ocean planets

[worn kettle]

But if the entire planet is one big ocean where do you land?

[digital lintel]

Could add water surface landing to ships as well

Or have a special type of ship for that

[spark sonnet]

Want

[worn kettle]

Or floating landing platforms SpaceX style

[analog rose]

The Expeditions7 game system we playing right now, I like it. I wonder if I could be choose this as my normal gameplay.
(as well as permadeath)

I like point is It's not completely nothing, there is " legacies" remain, such as the base and the Freighter.

I loved this feeling of myself's legacies are became Ladder.

[warped finch]

.

[worn kettle]

Gas planets with floating outposts like the cloud city in star wars and if you go too deep into the atmosphere your ship would get destroyed

[coral sandal]

Or just prevent the ship from going that deep. But that wouldn't be that interesting as an option of getting smashed

[dusty mural]

futur be futuring

[gloomy hazel]

True

[peak fiber]

if there were ocean planets i would love to see a large underwater animal, maybe kind of similar to the sandworm. either way would be cool and give more use to the submarine vehicle that already exists

[serene furnace]

I wish that continental planets looked more continental.
What I mean by this is that, especially when looking down from space, (By the way, the clouds seen from space could match the clouds on the ground) The planet's landmasses look more like a giant semi-connected archipelago. It doesn't look natural.
I'd rather that the landmasses look more like solid continents separated by ocean, with some islands dotted about.
Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator on continent settings, basically.

[fickle current]

I really wish everyone saw the same thing, such as storms, AI frigget ships, and AI locations. Sorta ruins the immersion when my friend says “woah that’s a big ship” and I’m just confused not even seeing what he’s talking about. Or when he’s dying by a storm and there is just no storm for me :/ ALSO CAPES!!! When is the visual capes issue gonna be fixed? And the ships that fold, ships don’t look folded for anyone else but yourself :’)

[analog rose]

I didn't know storms were a local phenomenon until now. Certainly I hope they fix it.
I could probably think "What is this guy doing?" a few times at the nexus mission even if they don't say anything.

[oblique smelt]

I wish that Hello Games add flowing water on planets. Waterfalls, rivers , or lava rivers on volcano planets etc. Also moving water on oceans, even in storms the water stays perfectly flat.

[fallen hawk]

liquid physics is something even games focused on the ocean don't want to touch

while a system for procedurally generated rivers and such would be cool, I can only imagine it being excessively complex

there's a reason most games just say "yeah anything below this Y level/within this radius is ocean"

otherwise, defining what a volume of water is (or worse, how it behaves) is probably more than a little difficult/processing-intensive

[vivid drift]

I would like to see a fix for freighters literally coming out of planets, unless that’s a hidden feature where planets can give birth to freighters.

[fallen hawk]

the frigate flybys could use something like that, yeah

[oblique smelt]

Txt chat for consoles would be nice quality of life improvement

Undo button when building would be handy

[oblique smelt]

If you could also select multiple parts and copy them all at once and move them in 3axis and parts stay in exact position to one another when they where duped. And you could snap them all to other unmarked part with Active autosnap option That would speed up the building by a huge amount

Adding an option to autosnap to snap the part in specific angle with option clock or counter clockwise (90 ,45, 30,15, 10 degrees for example) . With that option creating perfect circles and other shapes from parts would be fast and easy

[fallen hawk]

precise building controls would be really nice

[river dock]

Able to make maps so you can map the planet and pin down your discoveries.

[heady phoenix]

That sounds cool

[stray girder]

Multi-sword when

[drowsy pike]

Tbh some kind of energy bayonet weapon would be cool

[timid vigil]

Bytebeat update when

[ionic coral]

I would like to see the DISABLEMODS.TXT file removed and replaced with a launch options flag
-enableModSupport. The problem with using a text file to enable and disable modding support is that it causes issues with steam as this file is replaced any time the game is verified or moved and sometimes on update. using a launch flag will persist through updates and verification as a user setting and in the event of a crash or mod failure a launch flag can be disabled just as easily as the current method but without the steam issues.

[fallen hawk]

my personal elaboration on this is that I'd want a more freeform music editor

track length variation, note length variation within a single device, that sort of thing

[pallid holly]

Ship customization would be nice.

Like color scheme

[fallen hawk]

i'm neutral on that

however, I'd love to be able to repair the paint on my ships, and being able to alter decals would be cool

[sharp widget]

I propose the Signal Booster gets that function:
Placing a Signal booster on a planet records all your visits to points of interest until the Signal booster is removed.
Visiting a Signal Booster (even other players) provides the list of stored POIs and the booster can - given a nav chart - create a nav data to any stored POI to access later - or download the POIs directly into the players HUD.

[river dock]

That sounds like a great. Perfect purpose for the booster.

Great plan*

[turbid robin]

Like the Valheim map

[sharp widget]

You made me google that. Looks cool actually
@turbid robin

[keen igloo]

My favourite take on this kind of map is in EVE Online

You can place pins anywhere in space that you can return to at any time. You can organize them in folders, and they're also automatically sorted by system, so each system's pins are separate. In NMS, this can work by separating pins into system pins and planet pins.

[delicate wharf]

... 4.0 is up next ...

I hope its a big one

[fallen hawk]

in all honesty, I'd love the ability to choose where slot expansions are placed, be it inventory, ship, etc

[carmine needle]

I would like to see more lush planets with blue skies and water, so so so SO many times I have found the PERFECT planet, then see that it has red or orange water (bleh) and skies. It's horribly ugly lol. Also shouldn't paradise planets and moons all have water if they have so much vegetation?

[fiery lichen]

Kind of want to see more bio related stuff , freighter, capitals and multitool. Also more design on living ship would be nice to see

[timber tulip]

How about freighter battles

That would be really cool

[static ridge]

|| The galaxy in game is an anomalous computer simulation that has got the details wrong, and is dying. This is why anomalous planets exist, they are literally bugs in the code of the Atlas ||

||This game is kind of The Matrix in space, where a dying AI has everyone inside an increasingly buggy simulation ||

[fallen hawk]

Bio multitools exist, actually

“Alien” type. Pretty rare

[split zealot]

Don’t know if this is a good idea but I would love it if when you transfer items to storage containers it auto stacked instead of putting it in the first one

[sacred stratus]

Yeah its annoying having to look through them to find where the other half of your materials has gone

[split zealot]

Yeah

[zenith marten]

Also an auto sort button

[split zealot]

Yes

[elfin wigeon]

omg yes

[north terrace]

i want to summon freighter beside my friends freighter in the same system

[hollow shale]

I still wish you could skip the very beginning of the game.

[gloomy hazel]

Y e s .

I have the coolest ship and its neon yellow 💀

[wind spindle]

Personally, I'd like a couple or just one more feminine body option, in contrast to the current one, maybe just a short/squat one ?

[gloomy hazel]

A single pet slot used for titan pets titan pets are just normal pets but more big and cool looking

[fallen hawk]

hoping for the flamethrower to make a return eventually

[fiery lichen]

Well the alien type just don't have that biology style for me

[fallen hawk]

i mean, they do look different from the living ship aesthetic, sure

but they do seem to be living

or something

[split zealot]

Something that actively changes as you hold it?

[nocturne cedar]

I hope nms eventually adds back planets orbiting

It was apparently in a beta but got removed

It's fine if they keep planets tidally locked but having planets not all be in a small cluster on the same side of the star would be nice

Right now you can't even fly into the sun :(

[analog rose]

I hope to little improvement the electricity. There are some base components with no wire plugs but even require electric power. This is very hard to use.
A power distribution board or flush plug receptacle, or some thing, an object to support power supply to nearby equipment is needed.

[hot flame]

Mesh power grid, give us little repeaters to place around, wireless

[analog rose]

or Power lines it self feeding the perimeter (like RimWorld)...

[analog rose]

Same as above, about the installation things of the electrical....
A)Installation with wire connections, but itself dont consuming energy.
B)Tall electric light, with a wire connection on the top.

I think something like these would be useful building as electrical poles in the outdoors. (Electric poles can be useful structures to prevent people from lost a way. Actually, I myself built and utilized such a structure)

[fickle current]

Would love if we had the ability to grow back grass on grassy planets on areas that got built on or just parts that didn’t spawn grass.

[sullen creek]

(All just ideas)
I think it would be cool if there was an aquatic update.
For example, the ocean would go deeper and the further you go down, the bigger and deadlier fish would live
Kind of like subnautica, but not that detailed or deep.

Making a forest/jungle planet would also be cool with really dense trees and sometimes a field so you could land.
Gas planets would also be cool, they could have stations where you could land (but not let you jump off) and stations near the core to let you collect valuable stuff.
Also full aquatic planets with stations.
(the new planets would be added to system that have not been explored yet)

Being able to customize your ship and multi-tool colour would also be cool.
I’ve seen in dialog with npc travelers that they have a multi-sword, that would give melee a use if it was added.

Some larger creatures would be interesting, like much larger than a diplo. They would just be for sights, but maybe could be killed with a ship.

Flowing rivers and waterfalls would add some nice scenery.

Being able to get near the sun with a space station teleported would be pretty neat aswell. You could get some rare stuff there.

[oblique smelt]

Lights need an update. Specialy on consoles. Most light sources glow but dont give actual light and dont make the room brighter. In 3x3x3 wall cube you need to place light source literally on each wall and in center of the room.

[sullen creek]

The carbon light work pretty well, but I completely agree with an update

[oblique smelt]

Yeah , the light with baner is good to and it dont needs power

[frail flume]

I would like to see starship color customization using a similar editing scheme as the freighter. It could be accessed via the starship upgrade terminal aboard space stations.

[toxic slate]

i can only assume the lack of light fixtures casting light is a performance thing. it's definitely strange how bad the lighting situation is for building

[timid vigil]

The candelabra bloom and the sphere generator are the only decent light sources apparently

Seems like your best bet is to make a fun decorative base with normal building pieces and furniture, and then a utility base somewhere else using the prefabs.

[carmine needle]

Would also be great to move things around faster or in the suit suit and ship storage :)

[oblique smelt]

All Exocrafts storage managment option from freighter orbital materialiser room would be handy

[fierce orbit]

We should be able to glass planets

[timid vigil]

I'd like to see 4.0 collect all of these recent features into 1 cohesive whole. Like an Empire update.

Settlement profit goes straight into your imperial Treasury, the squadron system could be used to create an army system, ground combat and space combat. Maybe even real fleet battles with each class of frigate adding a different combat bonus.

[heady phoenix]

That’d be awesome

[oblique smelt]

I think you would save resources and get bettwr performance if you had one light source lighting whole room rather tham 20+sources in one room

[toxic slate]

I haven't actually looked too closely bc I don't build much, but aren't most of the decorative lights point-based lights? As opposed to volume-based lights which I think people want to have and which (at least used to be) more expensive from a performance perspective. But maybe they didn't just think enough about them

[uncut nimbus]

I think it would be cool if there was a option to move your character to the place it was about 1 minute back in situations where your character falls through the map.
I would also like to be able to upgrade the nutrient processor to be able to mass produce items / sell food in larger quantities to the food vendor on the anomaly.

Please also consider adding a feature where you are able to grant coop team mates access your inventory on your freighter with also the ability to revoke it.

[uncut nimbus]

Please allow us to upgrade freighter class in the next update

[main hound]

Yeah, but it should cost more nanites than to what we do usually for ships and MT's

Maybe triple the price

[fallen hawk]

150,000 nanites for an S class freighter....

yeah fair enough

[main hound]

Yeah, you want your dream freighter, you need to pay

Pay with your soul

[fallen hawk]

gotta do an exponentially more difficult quest for each upgrade

C->B? yeah, decently easy
B -> A? gonna have some trouble
A -> S? good luck

[stark vortex]

I guess

[prime wharf]

eh make it easyer than save scuming an S class or people wll just do that

[bleak knoll]

I think it would be cool if you could board the sentinel freighters after you cripple their weapons and go through it like the derelicts until you reach a central computer or somthing similar where you could shut the freighter down or change its flight path into the surface of a planet and loot the wreckage while fighting off sentinel survivors.